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Catch up with RBA's daily birdnews summaries. Browse ten days at a time, or choose a date to read summaries from that day backwards.

Daily summaries are available from 13 April 2006. For earlier weekly reviews, visit our articles.

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Thursday 20th August 2015  
  Rarity sightings included Lesser Yellowlegs in Lancashire, Greenish Warbler on Shetland, Arctic Warbler in Aberdeenshire, Spotted Sandpiper in Wiltshire, Red-footed Falcon in Lincolnshire, Black Stork in Aberdeenshire, White-rumped Sandpipers in Kent and Co Dublin, Bee-eaters in Cumbria (2) and Flintshire, Lesser Scaup in Somerset and two Wilson's Petrels off Isles of Scilly.

The best of the rest included Night Heron (West Yorkshire), Dotterel (Northumberland), Sabine's Gull (Shetland), Spotted Crake (East Yorkshire), American Golden Plover (Orkney), two Pectoral Sandpipers, two Melodious Warblers, four Barred Warblers, four Temminck's Stints (Kent), seven Red-backed Shrikes, ten Icterine Warblers and 13 Wrynecks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA